« From 2025, UiT will introduce a support programme for Diamond Open Access. According to UiT The Arctic University of Norway, this initiative could have a democratising effect on both reading and knowledge production. (…)
UiT is now launching its own support programme inspired by Université de Lorraine and other…
« (…) During the second meeting of the DORA National & International Initiatives CoP Discussion Group in 2025, we welcomed senior advisor Ragnar Lie and Dr. Liv Langfeldt to present on the Norwegian Career Assessment Matrix (NOR-CAM). As usual, the meeting brought together a diverse group of participants from various organizations…
« In this interview, Rasmus Kvaal Wardemann, Senior Adviser for Research Data and Infrastructure at the Research Council of Norway, reflects on the importance and future of EOSC and explains how its implementation is arranged in Norway. (…) »
« A working group appointed by Universities Norway (UHR) was mandated to recommend guiding principles for the assessment and evaluation of research(ers) in light of the transition to Open Science. This working group proposes a more flexible and holistic framework for recognition and rewards in academic research assessment. The ambition has…
« The EOSC-Nordic workshop “EOSC in the Nordics: from policy to practice” will be co-located with NeIC conference 2022 to be held in Oslo, Norway.
The workshop discusses the status of the EOSC uptake in the Nordic and Baltic countries, analyzing the existing barriers and challenges and highlighting implementation best practices…
« We see from information published elsewhere that Gold OA is on the increase globally. The OA Diamond study indicates that Diamond OA is an important component of scholarly communications, with an estimated 8–9% of the total global scholarly output. These numbers, however, are on a global scale and are not…
« A working group appointed by Universities Norway (UHR) was mandated to recommend guiding principles for the assessment and evaluation of research(ers) in light of the transition to Open Science. This working group proposes a more flexible and holistic framework for recognition and rewards in academic research assessment. The ambition has…
« This article analyses the impact and visibility of scholarly journals in the humanities that are publishing in the national languages in Finland, Norway and Spain. Three types of publishers are considered: commercial publishers, scholarly society as publisher, and research organizations as publishers. Indicators of visibility and impact were obtained from…
« This paper studies a selection of 11 Norwegian journals in the humanities and social sciences and their conversion from subscription to open access, a move heavily incentivized by governmental mandates and open access policies. By investigating the journals’ visiting logs in the period 2014–2019, the study finds that a conversion…
« NSDs Data Management Plan (NSD DMP) is a tool for enabling long-term preservation and sharing of research data. Its purpose is to enable researchers to manage their data in a lawful, well-structured and secure manner, and for the data to be stored, reused and understood in the future. The goal…
